Absurd Insinuation of Britain Financing Him Leader Arrested; Expulsion: of Seven Other Trouble-Makers Paris, June 24, London, June 24.
In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Mr. Johnston, Mr, Chamberlain said that the Government. had no information that any foreign Power had supported Marshal Chang, Tso-lin by munitions or money. He gave an assurance that Britain would not support any of the rival factions in China, Mr. Johnston asked whether Mr. Chamberlain was prepared to assure the House that the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation had not financed Marshal Chang Tso-lin.
The chief of the Chinese Commun-lists in Paris, who was the instigator lof the outrage at the Legation on Sunday, has been arrested, The Minister of the Interior has lordeved the expulsion of a number lof Chinese concerned in the out-craze or the agitation against the Powers in SI, seven doing lexpolled immediately.
Farther investigations are being learned out among the Chinese in [Paris and other disciplinary mea sures are probable shortly.—Reutor.
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Eleven Deported and Sixteen Taken on the Frontier Hongkong, June 25.
Interviewed by Reuter's correspondent on the question of financing Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Mr. Barlow, Chief Manager of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation, authori tively stated that the Corporation had never financed Marshal Chang in any way. The Bank had always maintained an attitude of the strictest neutrality towards Chinese politics. The only advances that the Bank had made in recent years had been to the Central Government at Peking for short penods. These advances had been definitely and fully secured and th British Legation at Peking had al ways been kept fully informed of any. such transactions—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Paris, June 25. of the [Chinese Commu: in Paris, who has been arreste director of two [Chinese Bolshevist organs, Lo Cid Rouge and Lo Rayon Rouge. large number of documents and pamphets in Chinese, Germ land Russian has been frooms. He admitted that he h instigated the outrage on the Chinese Tegation and stated that he iwas the head of the Kuomintang in Franco and could command implicit obedience of his followers.
Eleven Chinese have been deport-Jed. Sixteen others have been arrastfed on the Belgian frontier—Reuter.
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